Cbt Casualty Care Tech
Abstract
This project refines and assesses concepts, techniques, and materiel that improve survivability and ensure better medical treatment outcomes for Warfighters wounded in combat and other military operations. Combat casualty care research addresses control of severe bleeding, revival and stabilization, prognostics and diagnostics for life support systems (predictive indicators and decision aids), treatment of burns, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Clinical and rehabilitative medicine research addresses tissue repair including transplant technologies, orthopedic injuries, eye injuries, and face trauma. Research involves extensive collaboration with multiple academic institutions to refine treatments for combat wounds through AFIRM. This project is coordinated with the Military Departments and other government organizations to avoid duplication. Research conducted in this project focuses on the following five areas: (1) Damage Control Resuscitation (2) Combat Trauma Therapies (3) Combat Critical Care Engineering (4) Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine (5) Traumatic Brain Injury All drugs, biological products, and medical devices are refined in accordance with FDA regulations, which govern testing in animals to assess safety, toxicity, and effectiveness and subsequent human subject clinical trials. Promising efforts identified in this project are further matured under PE 0603002A, project 840. The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Science and Technology, focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work on this project is performed by USAISR, the U.S. Army Dental Trauma Research Detachment (USADTRD), Fort Sam Houston, TX; WRAIR, Silver Spring, MD; and the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM), Fort Detrick, MD. Efforts in this project support the Soldier Portfolio and the principal areas of Combat Casualty Care and Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- 874_0602787A_2_2040_PB_2014
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- Child Accomplishment: Traumatic Brain Injury